[Elecraft] Grounds... I know, I know... its a Dead issue BUT... (no Pun)

[Robert Harmon]

Phil,

My house is about the same vintage.  I had the same situation, no ground rod at the service entrance.
I put in a ground rod myself.  It may or may not have had an adequate ground before but I figured putting in 
a redundant ground with the ground rod would be a good idea, plus it brings it up to current code requirements.

Bob
K6UJ



On Apr 6, 2011, at 8:44 AM, Phil Townsend wrote:

> I really hate to bring it up again... But hear me out:
> 
> My A/C service entrance does not have a ground rod.
> My house was built about 25 years ago.'
> I pulled the service front panel and found the following:
> All the grounds and neutrals are bonded to the metal chassis as they are supposed to be.
> But there is no wire for a connection to a ground ROD!
> It looks like they used a solid metal pipe that houses the big A/C wire inside of this pipe.
> This pipe IS connected to the service entrance by some metal gland nuts.
> The 2 1/2" pipe goes outside of the house and is buried underground. It goes off to a transformer that is about 100 yards away.
> So my question: 
> IS this pipe MY Ground rod?
> 
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